Example sentences of "he had just [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The memory was staggeringly clear , as though he had just heard those other bells , as though he were just surging forward in his final spurt , kicking for home . |
| 2 | He felt as if he had just run fifty yards , rather quickly . |
| 3 | This heartened D'Arcy , because he had just converted this former communist to Catholicism . |
| 4 | He had just turned 38 , but his beard was nearly all grey . |
| 5 | He did so ‘ to incapacitate him — to make him realise he had just injured one of my colleagues . ’ |
| 6 | The whole family and Christian crowded around the young gipsy , congratulating him as though he had just achieved some major feat . |
| 7 | He had just provided some polish for a machine that was already a miracle of design . |
| 8 | As far as he was concerned , he had just knocked another competitor out of the promotion stakes . |
| 9 | For some reason he had just remembered poor old Eddy Moulton . |
| 10 | He had just ordered hot rum for the three of them . |
| 11 | The simplest explanation was that he had just got tired of Jacqui . |
| 12 | I think he had just got bored and was looking for something to do , so he sought to amuse . ’ |
| 13 | He had just got most of their luggage on board and now was in a dilemma . |
| 14 | Jones had already used a variety of materials , one of which was palladium , and was preparing to obtain the final proof with his detector that he had just spent two years building . |
| 15 | He had just spent seven years in Spain as papal nuncio and made the acquaintance of Caldéron ; the setting is Spanish and the romantic element is stronger . |
| 16 | Umpire Peter Wright upheld batsman Cook 's objection that if Akram was fit to bowl ( he had just taken five wickets ) then he should be able to field . |
| 17 | He had just finished three years of national service . |
| 18 | He was aware of a slow feeling of triumph , a sense of release as if he had just won some physical competition ; without the fear there would n't have been this strange sense of excitement and content . |